Tag: Cato Institute

According to the Obama Administration, the Employer Mandate Is Suddenly No Big Deal

I must have missed the transition to irrelevancy. For my money, the mandate was all we heard of for months. What’s going on? The...

The Most Important Person You May Never Have Heard of Strikes Again

Few Republicans or Democrats are ever on the right track when it comes to foreign policy and the actual defense of America as intended...

Obamacare—the Train Wreck Begins!

Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains the unworkable nature of Obamacare and outlines the economic burden it would be for the country. In postponing the implementation...

The Obama Administration Has Abused Nearly Every Power It Possesses

Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon unravels the Obamacare debacle and questions the role of the IRS. The IRS has announced it will postpone the start date of Obamacare’s “employer mandate”...

NSA and IRS Lying to Congress

Who is going to pay the price? Remenber the big Gulf of Tonkin lie, Lyndon Johnson (high on my all-time worst presidents list) and...

Congress Can’t Get the Deal Done so Student Loan Rates Double to a Whopping 6.8%

Thanks to the Washington politicians and the unconstitutional Fed, the money changers on Wall Street borrow for nothing, while your granny cannot earn zilch...

The Politicians Wrongly Subsidize the Purchase of Ice Cream, Candy, Cookies and Soft Drinks with SNAP

Cato senior fellow Michael Tanner writes that politicians wrongly subsidize the purchase of junk foods with the SNAP program. SNAP suffers from numerous other problems...

TSA Body Scanners Cause More Deaths than they Prevent

TSA's nude body scanners probably cause more deaths than they prevent. Cato Institute scholar Jim Harper gives us the inside story here. Travelers wary of...

Turkey: Fears of a Return to Military Rule Appear Overdone

My friend Cato Institute's Chris Preble just returned from Turkey  and offers compelling insights for us. On the other hand, fears of a return to...

Most Of The Farm Bill Was About Food Stamps!

No member of the house should have voted for this spending boondoggle. And yet as Cato Institute's Chris Edwards outlines many so-called "fiscal conservatives" lined...

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